Hillary Clinton writes of Bowe Bergdahl, Joe Biden in memoir

Hillary Clinton, in her book out next week, reflects on her split with President Barack Obama over how to handle conflict-riven Syria, describes her role in the early-stage discussions about a prisoner swap with the Taliban for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and recounts her first date-like rapprochement with her former primary rival, according to a new report.

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CBS News obtained a copy of “Hard Choices,” Clinton’s memoir about her time as Secretary of State that’s set to hit book shelves on Tuesday. POLITICO reported last week on the chapter that addresses the Benghazi attacks and their aftermath.

And in an excerpt obtained by the Associated Press, Clinton writes that she pushed the president to make a change to the long-standing U.S. embargo against Cuba.

Here’s a look at some of the other excerpts reported by CBS and the AP.

Iraq. Clinton says for the first time that she was “wrong” to have voted to authorize the Iraq war in 2002, a vote that helped sink her in the 2008 presidential primary.

“Many senators came to wish they had voted against the resolution. I was one of them,” Clinton says. “As the war dragged on, with every letter I sent to a family in New York who had lost a son or daughter, a father or mother, my mistake (became) more painful.”

She adds, “I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn’t alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple.”

It’s further than Clinton ever went in the 2008 race, even as she slowly crept away from the vote. It’s unclear if she explains in the book why she wouldn’t say it back then.

Bergdahl. Regarding the man who sparked a cable news wall-to-wall controversy since his release was announced by Obama on Saturday, Clinton writes that she knew “that opening the door to negotiations with the Taliban would be hard to swallow for many Americans after so many years of war.”

Syria. Clinton acknowledges she was at odds with Obama on whether to arm Syrian rebels, a policy debate she lost.

“I returned to Washington reasonably confident that if we decided to begin arming and training moderate Syrian rebels, we could put in place effective coordination with our regional partners,” she writes.

“[T]he risks of both action and inaction were high. Both choices would bring unintended consequences. The President’s inclination was to stay the present course and not take the significant further step of arming rebels. No one likes to lose a debate, including me. But this was the President’s call and I respected his deliberations and decision. From the beginning of our partnership, he had promised me that [I] would always get a fair hearing. And I always did. In this case, my position didn’t prevail,” she writes.

Cuba. Clinton said the long-standing embargo had simply given Fidel Castro “a foil to blame for Cuba’s economic woes.”

She notes that her husband had also tried easing the embargo, although it didn’t have an impact. Still, she advised Obama that it “wasn’t achieving its goals” and “it was holding back our broader agenda across Latin America. … I thought we should shift the onus onto the Castros to explain why they remained undemocratic and abusive.”

Osama bin Laden. Clinton supported the raid that killed him, and she reveals some of the dramatic moments in the Situation Room as Obama’s team waited to see whether the mission would succeed.

“Contrary to some news reports and what you see in the movies, we had no means to see what was happening inside the building itself. All we could do was wait for an update from the team on the ground,” she writes. “I looked at the President. He was calm. Rarely have I been prouder to serve by his side as I was that day.”

She adds: “After what seemed like an eternity, but was actually about fifteen minutes, word came from [Admiral William] McRaven that the team had found bin Laden and he was ‘E-KIA,’ enemy killed in action. Osama bin Laden was dead.”